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    Need help identifying an electronic component

    I don't know if this is technical enough to be put in here, but anyway... I dissected one of those shaking flashlights, and instead of using a capacitor to store charge, it uses this thing. I'm pretty sure that's not a capacitor since it doesn't even have any capacitance rating. Just "NT 473"...
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    Reduced Overclock Potential?

    I built my system in January and ran it at 3.19 GHz (456x7) for over 4 months. When summer started, I turned down the overclock to around 3.0 GHz and have been running that for about 2 months now. Last night, I tried setting it back at 3.19 GHz and it would not pass 1 minute of Orthos. All of...
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    Foam shim on heatsinks

    Both my old Lanparty Ultra-D and my current Gigabyte 965P DS3 have this foam pad between the northbridge heatsink and the actual northbridge PCB. I've only seen this used for northbridge cooling because video cards don't this. Is the foam absolutely needed to protect whatever it's protecting on...
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    Modding Hard Drive Enclosure

    I got one of those Vantec eSATA enclosures and the drive (Seagate 7200.10 320 GB) runs pretty hot (~46C). I was thinking of mounting a fan on the side to blow air in but don't know how to power the fan. It's an 80mm fan with 2 pins (no speed sensor). What would be a sensible way to wire this...
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    Modding Headphone Cable

    I have the Sony MDR-XD200 headphones attached to my soundcard along with my speakers. For some reason my soundcard (Realtek ALC888) outputs really loud volume even with the volume all the way down. At the lowest volume my headphones are at a decent level but my speakers need to be cranked up...
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    Logitech Setpoint

    I have a VX Revolution and every time I unplug it or it auto-powers off, the Setpoint list of programs would reset to the default. This affects things like the scroll wheel where the page would only scroll 1 line at a time if the program is on the list, like MS Word. I have several items removed...
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    "Page flipping" on nVidia cards?

    With dynamic lighting turned off in Stalker, I get over 100 FPS with my 7900GS. However, it's still a little choppy and when I move the mouse around, it's definitely not a smooth motion. I asked someone about this and he said something about "page flipping." However, he said that's the ATI term...
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    NB heatsink compatibility issues?

    http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/5926/89200548is5.jpg http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5893/99899997nd3.jpg http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/8306/35937066xa9.jpg http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7871/68240575gt7.jpg That's how it looks currently with my Freezer 7 Pro on there...
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    Probability of coin flip

    This question was brought up in class back in high school and I'm still thinking about it. The question is: If you flip two coins and know the outcome of one of them, what is the probability both coins landed on the same side? My teacher argued that it's 1/3 because the possibilities are...
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    Radical Case Fans Idea

    http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/3986/untitled1gs3.jpg The basic idea is to use side and top fans only. The front fan is only for hard drives if your case mounts them horizontally at the front (like my case). Have two low/med speed side fans (120 mm) blowing directly onto the...
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    Excel spreadsheets inside Word

    I have two spreadsheets in a Word document right now and they share some common fields. Is there a way to have one of them reference the other so that when I modify one of them, the other also changes? I know it's possible to have both link to an external Excel file, but I need to use...
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    Excel Pivot Chart problem

    I am by no means an expert with Excel, so bear with me here. I am working with this "program" which is basically a series of spreadsheets linked together with VBA macros. On one of the spreadsheets, there is a worksheet containing a summary of data. It contains no links. There is another...
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    CS:S and DD-WRT

    I'm using a Linksys WRT54GL flashed with DD-WRT v23 SP2. Ever since switching from my D-Link DI-624, I'm seeing a very small server list in Steam games. Normally I see at least 1600, but now I only see a max of 300. All settings are kept the same in CS:S. From what I understand, it's not a...
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    Surge protector buzzing sound?

    I have a 9-outlet Belkin surge protector and it makes a constant buzzing sound with my computer turns on. Is that normal under heavy power loads? It's silent when I only have my laptop plugged in.
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    Replace power supply or not?

    I've used an Enermax Noisetaker 420W in an overclocked Athlon 64 system for the past two years. It was perfectly stable, but I only had a 6600GT in there. In the next few weeks, hopefully, I will get a E6300 and overclock that. How much more power does it draw compared to a Winchester 3200+...
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    DDR2 Overclocking

    I've been running a Winchester these past 2 years and it's time to hop on the Conroe bandwagon now. I've been out of the loop for a while and during my absence it seems that DDR2 has really taken off. DDR overclocking has always been a royal pain unless you get the good stuff like TCCD. After...